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The GameSphere is a fictional video game console featured in the TV series Drake and Josh, which has the particularity of being completely round. Its appearance and Josh enthusiastic description of the console, "It's spherical!", has led to a number of online memes, usually exploitable edits where the Gamesphere in Josh's hands is replaced with another spherical thing.

Origin

In episode 1, season 2 of Drake and Josh, titled "The Bet," which first aired on March 14th, 2004 on Nickelodeon,^[1] Josh gets a "Gamesphere," a parody of the Nintendo Gamecube invented for the show. The item used as a prop for the console is a Boomball, a spherical stereo CD player and AM/FM radio made by Memorex, originally sold in the 1990s. In this scene, he gets excited showing it off to his family, crying "It's spherical!" while he holds the console with both arms stretched.

One of the earliest known posts to use the scene as a meme was posted on Cheezburger on March 17th, 2013 by user b-hawk1,^[2] gaining over 710 likes in ten years (shown below).

Spread

Over the following decade, the template was commonly used to comment on things that were, in fact, spherical. Often, these would be cute animals or characters from pop culture. For example, a Tumblr post by user eveltal,^[3] since deleted, featuring the Pokémon Spheal circulated on the app since at least January 16th, 2014, accumulating over 21,000 notes in ten years (shown below, left). Similarly, on May 10th, 2016, Tumblr user rovan84127^[4] used the meme for the Pokémon Rowlet, gaining over 23,000 notes in seven years

The meme has also been applied to multiple templates that involve a round object. For example, on June 5th, 2018, Know Your Meme user "Wazzz's Meme Dump" posted a LeBron James NBA Finals Reaction parody with Josh and the Gamesphere (shown below, left). On December 21st, 2021, Twitter user FlorenceLupin^[5] drew a parody of the Pondering My Orb template featuring Josh and the Sphere, gaining over 100 retweets and 330 likes in a year and a half (shown below, right).

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